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specified in Bye law No. 1 provided such offal is renoved from
the promises in suitable and closely covered receptaclcs, which
will effectually prevent any noxious effluvia escaping therefrom."
At the same time I submitted a report on the subject to
your Vestry, which, after some introductory remarks, proceeded
as follows:—
"The importance of this.question is undeniable; it may be well,
therefore, to state what has been the action of your Vestry with
reference to it in the past. And first I may state that it formed the
subject of a special report by myself, dated 17th November, 1887, on
1 The Storage, Collection, and Conveyance through Streets of Offensive
Substances.' This report was approved by your Vestry and forwarded
to the Metropolitan Board of Works, whose Special Purposes and
Sanitary Committee were considering the subject, and had addressed
a circular letter thereon to the several Sanitary Authorities with a
request for information. The recommendation I made in the said
report was that ' bye laws with respect to offensive substances of animal
origin should be made by the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1 under
what I considered to be ' unexhausted powers in the Metropolis Local
Management Act, 1855'; such bye-laws to make provision.—(l) as to the
' storage vessels ' for offensive substances ; viz., ' that they should be of
metal, impervious and covered'; (2) as to the removal of the said
substances, viz., 'that it should be effected in covered iron tanks, or
preferably in the storage vessels themselves' ; (3) as to the ' time of
the daily removal,' viz., ' that it should be in the evening,' and (4) as
'to measures for the disposal' of the collected refuse. Further, I
proposed that the duty of removing all such offensive substances should
devolve upon the Sanitary Authority at the reasonable cost of the
owners thereof, who I felt sure would gladly have fallen in with any
reasonable arrangement with this object, as indeed certain of the
butchers themselves proposed.
" The Metropolitan Board ceased to exist in the early part of
1889, having done nothing to carry out the views thus, at their own
request, submitted for their consideration.
" The attention of the County Council was soon called to the
subject by your Vestry, in this wise: In 1884, the Law and Parliamentary
Committee were directed, upon the motion of the late Mr.
Herbert C. Saunders, Q.C., to enquire and report as to ' Sanitary,
Nuisances-removal, and other cognate Acts whether the
provisions of the said Acts have been and are being enforced by th